Schedule released for Pacific-Asia Curling Championships 2018

The schedule for the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships 2018 being held in the Gangneung Curling Centre, the recent venue for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, has been released.

The event takes place from 3 to 10 November.

A single session of play on the opening Saturday (3 November) will see the men’s teams take to the ice where hosts and returning champions, Korea, will face China in a repeat of last year’s final.

In the same session, last year’s men’s bronze medal game will be replayed between Australia and Japan.

The women’s competition begins the following day (Sunday 4 November) and will see the Olympic silver medallists and the 2016 and 2017 Pacific-Asia champions, Korea, begin their title defence against 2017 bronze medal winners, China.

2017 women’s silver medal winners, Japan, will begin their competition against Australia in the same session.

The round-robin stage continues until Thursday 8 November, followed immediately that evening at 19.00 (Korean Standard Time, UTC +9) by the first women’s semi-final game.

Both men’s semi-finals and the remaining women’s semi-final will take place on Friday 9 November.

The women’s gold medal game will take place on Saturday 10 November at 12.30 (KST) and will be followed by the men’s gold medal game at 16.30 (KST) later that day.

The full schedule can be found under the link in the menu above.

World Curling TV will be the host broadcaster for the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships 2018 and will produce extensive coverage for rights-holders and its YouTube channel – in territories there is no broadcast partner. More information will be released in due course.

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